News Medical media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News Medical in the centre. We have seen it on 10 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is News Medical biased?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News Medical in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is News Medical left or right?
Ad Fontes Media and Media Bias/Fact Check place News Medical in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is News Medical reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for News Medical are Ad Fontes Media: Very high factuality; Media Bias/Fact Check: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What News Medical has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with News Medical’s own report linked underneath.
A new Lancet report indicates 710,000 heat-related deaths occurred globally in 2023, with over 70% attributed to human-caused climate change. Researchers are urging a formal declaration of a global health emergency to address accelerating climate harms.
News Medical reported it asClimate change intensifies global health risks, Lancet Countdown report warns (opens News Medical in a new tab)
A new study suggests US drinking water may contain twice the reported levels of PFAS, also known as 'forever chemicals'. Researchers used computer models to analyze EPA data, finding current reporting methods capture only 44% of average concentrations for 25 PFAS chemicals.
News Medical reported it asPFAS levels in United States drinking water may be underestimated (opens News Medical in a new tab)
An artificial intelligence model can predict cancer patients' survival risk and biological aging from a single facial photograph. The research, conducted by Mass General Brigham, used a model trained on over 40 million facial images.
News Medical reported it asAdvanced AI tool estimates biological age and predicts cancer survival from face photos (opens News Medical in a new tab)
A report published in The Lancet has identified 17 major threats to human survival by the year 2100. Malicious use of artificial intelligence and nuclear conflict are highlighted as the most significant dangers, alongside issues like climate change, obesity, and pandemics.
News Medical reported it asLancet Commission identifies seventeen catastrophic threats to global health (opens News Medical in a new tab)
Eating late at night is associated with a 20-30% increased risk of liver disease, including fatty liver and cirrhosis, according to a US study of around 200,000 people. Researchers suggest timing of meals is key to liver health.
News Medical reported it asLate-night snacking may affect liver health (opens News Medical in a new tab)
Stanford University scientists have found that the human brain develops from two distinct progenitor cell populations, suggesting an evolutionary merging of two ancient nervous systems. This discovery could aid research into neurological diseases.
News Medical reported it asNew discovery overturns a prevailing model of brain development (opens News Medical in a new tab)
A study examining UK medical records found that semaglutide, the active ingredient in Ozempic and Wegovy, was associated with a nearly 40% reduction in asthma attacks and a 20% decrease in COPD flare-ups. Scientists suggest anti-inflammatory properties may be responsible, but caution that further trials are needed.
News Medical reported it asGLP-1 treatment linked to 40% fewer asthma attacks (opens News Medical in a new tab)
A genetically modified pig kidney functioned in a human patient for a record 271 days, allowing the individual to avoid dialysis while awaiting a human transplant. The results were published in The Lancet by doctors from Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School.
News Medical reported it asPig kidney xenotransplantation offers a bridge for patients awaiting human donor kidneys (opens News Medical in a new tab)
A major review of 80 randomized controlled trials found that nicotine e-cigarettes were more effective than nicotine replacement therapy for helping people quit smoking. The review involved nearly 30,000 participants and found no evidence of increased serious harm from using e-cigarettes to quit.
News Medical reported it asNicotine e-cigarettes help more smokers quit than conventional methods (opens News Medical in a new tab)
Scientists at the Arc Institute in California used an AI model named Evo to design 16 new bacteriophages capable of infecting E. coli. The study, published in Science, excluded human pathogen datasets, ensuring the viruses cannot infect people. Experts warn of biosecurity risks despite potential medical applications.
News Medical reported it asResearchers use AI to design functional bacteriophage genomes from scratch (opens News Medical in a new tab)
Who says so
2 organisations have published a rating for this outlet, in their own words. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
Very high factuality
Who owns it
- AZoM.com Limitedunknowndirect owner
- AZoNetworkunknownparent group
- Ian Birkbyunknownparent group
Where it publishes from
- Publishes from
- Mona Vale, Northern Beaches Council, New South Wales, Australia
- Official site
- news-medical.net
- Seen publishing on
- news-medical.net
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 10
- Reports listed
- 10
- We could read
- 2
- First seen
- 4 August 2026
8 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 2 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. News Medical is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 10 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of News Medical: its report arrived a median of 16 hours after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 3 November 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 2 November 2026. Ratings pulled 4 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as News Medical, also publishing from Australia, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
Think this page is wrong?
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where News Medical publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.